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The geography of trade and technology shocks in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007

Askenazy, Philippe (contributor) - 2008

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...

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Short-time work benefits revisited : some lessons from the Great Recession

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011

The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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Trade, wages, and collective bargaining : evidence from France

Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2015

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring …

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The aggregate effects of trade and migration : evidence from OECD countries

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2011

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious omitted-variables bias,...

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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters

Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024

We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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